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Happiness. I have a cat.
This is installment #15 of a sci-fi serial. Installment #1 was posted 1/23/21; appropriately a numerically-ordered palindrome. Follow the links forward from the last sentence and backward from the first sentence of each post. I am lost; in a vast … Continue reading
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happiness (un)modified
This is installment #14 of a sci-fi serial. Installment #1 was posted 1/23/21; appropriately a numerically-ordered palindrome. Follow the links forward from the last sentence and backward from the first sentence of each post. The surgeon is with us! It … Continue reading
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governing happiness
This is installment #13 of a sci-fi serial. Installment #1 was posted 1/23/21; appropriately a numerically-ordered palindrome. Follow the links forward from the last sentence and backward from the first sentence of each post. Being the scribe on the governing … Continue reading
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happiness mismatched
Author and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich wrote, “To make a mess that another person will have to deal with… …is to exert domination.” If we define mess as disorder, and include ‘identify’ alongside ‘make’, then we have an apt descriptor … Continue reading
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American Happiness
With waves crashing against the wharf ___________________________ The Ass and the Elephant went to sea ~In a red white and jive-blue boat, They took some honey, printed plenty of money, ~Wrapped up in a rights-bound note. The Ass looked down … Continue reading
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